"It was a great play by the twins (Henrik Sedin took a pass from his
twin brother, Daniel)," Carter said. "For me, pretty easy. Just put it
in the net. ... A nice little saucer pass right on my stick."

Henrik Sedin had a goal and two assists for Vancouver, while Matt Cooke and Richard Park scored for
the Canucks. Park's goal was into an empty net with two seconds
remaining.

"All in all, it was a good effort, a gritty effort," Vancouver coach
Marc Crawford said. "We stuck with it."

Auld stopped a few shots in a goal-mouth flurry with less than 30
seconds left as Detroit desperately tried to tie it before Park's empty
net goal.

"I just felt the puck hit me I don't know how many times," Auld said. "I
heard one of my defensemen yell, 'It's still loose!' and then somebody
shot it down the ice."

Holmstrom tied it 2-2 3:25 into the third period when he jammed the puck
in from the crease.

Cooke tied the game at 1 on a breakaway goal at 7:04 of the second.
Henrik Sedin gave Vancouver the lead with 1:56 left in the period, when
he put a shot over a sprawling Legace from the bottom of the right
circle with Auld out of the net for the extra attacker as a penalty was
being called on Red Wings defenseman Andreas Lilja.

Detroit was 0-for-6 on the power play, including two two-man advantages.
The Red Wings came into the game with the league's top power play at
34.7 percent. It produced five goals in Sunday night's win over Calgary.

"We just didn't seem to be able to get anything settled," Detroit
defenseman Mathieu Schneider said. "We
seemed to be a couple of inches off (on passes) all night."

Samuelsson opened the scoring 3:50 into the game, when he stuffed a shot
past Auld from the side of the net after picking up the loose puck
behind the cage.

Notes

Babcock said captain Steve Yzerman, who has been out with a
groin injury, will make his season debut on Thursday in Los Angeles.

Canucks C Brendan Morrison's streak of 351 consecutive games is
the second-longest current run, three behind Colorado's Karlis
Skrastins.

Detroit D Niklas Kronwall underwent successful ACL surgery in
Aspen, Colo., on Monday. He's expected to be out four-to-six months.
He was injured in an exhibition game.

Copyright 2015 by STATS LLC and The Associated Press. Any commercial use or
distribution without the express written consent of STATS LLC and The
Associated Press is strictly prohibited.